The Public Relations Officer of the Greater-Accra Regional Police has confirmed that all three vehicles used in Tuesday’s robbery at Royal Motors company have been recovered by police.
ASP Afia Tenge says the recovered vehicles will help the police in their investigation of the crime.
“When they were escaping in their Toyota Corolla that they used for the robbery, they bumped into another car and that caused them to abandon the car. They hijacked another car and they absconded in that one but we have recovered all the cars and it will help us in investigations”, she said.
Armed men, in a stunning daylight robbery Tuesday morning stormed Royal Motors, an automobile company in Accra, making away with an undisclosed amount of money believed to be the company's sales for the day.
Although the robbers got away with their booty before the police could get there, some staff who spoke to Joy News said the robbers attacked the cashier’s office and made away with an undisclosed amount of money.
They were also said to have made away with GH¢8000 from the secretary’s office.
Some customers of Royal Motors who have gone to the company’s premises after the robbery to transact business found the premises locked.
“I came to buy a headlight for my motorbike but I saw the shop was closed. When I inquired, I learnt they have been attacked by armed robbers. I never heard of the robbery until I arrived here,” he said.
ASP Tenge has assured that the police are working to provide high-level security following cases of robberies in the capital.
“We have done some deployment…we needed to beef up security”, ASP Tenge told Gifty Andoh Appiah on The Pulse.
She also added that they are set to have a meeting with the Command and she will make the details of that meeting available to the media “as long as it is good for public consumption”.
Speaking on the recent robberies in the Oyibi, ASP Tenge noted that, the area is a developing community which hasn’t been planned well and that has created some operational challenges for them.
“We realize that these places are growing areas and the roads are not easy to access so if they are attacked the response doesn’t come in time but those that we are able to get to in time, we offer them the needed assistance”, she said.
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